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title: "Warfield noise bylaw: quiet hours, construction hours and fines"
question: "What are the noise rules and quiet hours in Warfield?"
place: Warfield, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/warfield
category: Bylaws, noise and complaints
owner: municipal
owner_body: Village of Warfield
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# Warfield noise bylaw: quiet hours, construction hours and fines

**Question:** What are the noise rules and quiet hours in Warfield?

**Short answer:** Warfield's Noise Control Bylaw bans noise that disturbs the neighbourhood at any time, and bans disturbing building work or machinery from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. It sets no other fixed quiet hours and no decibel limits. A noise ticket is $100.

**Who handles it:** Municipal (Village of Warfield, https://warfield.ca)  
**Cost:** Ticket $100 for a disturbance, construction noise or noisy equipment; $250 for a second offence; $500 for a third.  
**How long:** Not applicable.  
**Where:**
- Phone: Village Office, 250-368-8202 (Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; closed Friday. No page links it to noise complaints; confirm first.)

## Key facts

- **General rule:** No one may make, cause or allow noise on a highway or on public or private property that disturbs or tends to disturb the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of the neighbourhood or people nearby. This covers amplified sound, barking animals and loud vehicles.
  - Source: [Noise Control Bylaw No. 866, 2019, ss. 3 to 7](https://warfield.ca/wp-content/documents/bylaws/Bylaw-866-Noise-Control-Bylaw-2019.pdf)
  - Official wording: "THAT no person shall make, cause or suffer or permit noise or sounds" … "which disturbs or tends to disturb the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of the neighbourhood or of persons in the vicinity"
  - Check: wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08
- **Quiet hours:** None set. Warfield's Noise Control Bylaw sets no fixed quiet hours for ordinary noise.
- **Construction hours:** From 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., no one may carry on building, repair or excavation work, or run a machine or engine, in a way that disturbs people nearby. Council may consent in writing to work in those hours. No separate Sunday or holiday rule is set.
  - Source: [Noise Control Bylaw No. 866, 2019, ss. 8, 9](https://warfield.ca/wp-content/documents/bylaws/Bylaw-866-Noise-Control-Bylaw-2019.pdf)
  - Official wording: "Between the hours of 11:00 pm to 7:00 am, no person shall:" … "Carry on work or suffer or permit work in connection with the construction, reconstruction, alteration or" … "the Council may give its consent in writing to carry on any such work between the said hours"
  - Check: wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08
- **Other limits:** No decibel limits. Also banned: playing amplified sound in a way that disturbs neighbours (ss. 4, 5), animals that disturb by repeated barking or birds by their cries (s. 6), and loud motor vehicles on a highway (s. 7). Exempt: emergency vehicles and work, utilities, and normal noise of trades in commercial or industrial zones.
  - Source: [Noise Control Bylaw No. 866, 2019, ss. 4 to 7, 10](https://warfield.ca/wp-content/documents/bylaws/Bylaw-866-Noise-Control-Bylaw-2019.pdf)
  - Official wording: "No person shall play or operate any radio, television set, stereophonic equipment" … "No person shall own, keep, harbor or permit any animal including a dog which by repeated barking" … "No person shall operate any motorized vehicle on a highway in the Municipality which disturbs" … "lawfully carrying on a trade or industry at a commercial, industrial or light industrial zoned area"
  - Check: wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08
- **Who to call, business hours:** Not confirmed. Neither the bylaw nor the Village's pages name a noise complaint contact.
- **Who to call, after hours:** Not confirmed. No after-hours noise contact is named.
- **Fine:** Ticket under Schedule A: $100 for causing a disturbance, construction noise, or operating noisy equipment. Repeat offences: $250 second, $500 third. The bylaw's penalty section sets a range of $100 to $2,000 on conviction.
  - Source: [Noise Control Bylaw No. 866, 2019, Schedule A; Penalty Section](https://warfield.ca/wp-content/documents/bylaws/Bylaw-866-Noise-Control-Bylaw-2019.pdf)
  - Official wording: "Causing disturbance 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 $100" … "Construction noise 8 $100" … "Second Offense $250.00 Third Offense $500.00" … "not less than One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars and not more than Two Thousand ($2,000.00)"
  - Check: wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08
- **Bylaw:** Noise Control Bylaw No. 866, 2019
  - Source: [Noise Control Bylaw No. 866, 2019, s. 1](https://warfield.ca/wp-content/documents/bylaws/Bylaw-866-Noise-Control-Bylaw-2019.pdf)
  - Official wording: "bylaw may be cited as the “Noise Control Bylaw No. 866, 2019"
  - Check: wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08

## How it works

In Warfield, the [Noise Control Bylaw No. 866](https://warfield.ca/wp-content/documents/bylaws/Bylaw-866-Noise-Control-Bylaw-2019.pdf) says no one may make, cause or allow noise, on a highway or on public or private property, that disturbs or tends to disturb the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of the neighbourhood or people nearby. This covers amplified sound, barking animals and loud vehicles. The bylaw sets no fixed quiet hours for ordinary noise and no decibel limits.

## Steps

1. For building, repair or excavation work, or running a machine or engine, stay off the 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. window if it disturbs people nearby. Council may consent in writing to work in those hours.
2. To complain, contact the Village Office (250-368-8202). The bylaw and the Village's pages name no noise complaint contact, so ask who handles it.

## Good to know

- Also banned: amplified sound that disturbs neighbours, animals that disturb by repeated barking, birds by their cries, and loud motor vehicles on a highway.
- Exempt: emergency vehicles and work, utilities, and the normal noise of trades in commercial or industrial zones.
- The bylaw sets no separate Sunday or holiday rule.
- A ticket under Schedule A is $100 for causing a disturbance, construction noise or operating noisy equipment, then $250 for a second offence and $500 for a third. The bylaw's penalty section sets a range of $100 to $2,000 on conviction. The Village's Bylaw Notice Enforcement Bylaw 950 may list noise at a different amount; its online copy is a scanned image that could not be read.
- No after-hours noise contact is named. The Village's emergency-only Public Works line is 250-368-1078; it is not a noise line.

## Official forms and pages

- [Noise Control Bylaw No. 866, 2019 (PDF)](https://warfield.ca/wp-content/documents/bylaws/Bylaw-866-Noise-Control-Bylaw-2019.pdf)

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## Sources

- [Noise Control Bylaw No. 866, 2019 (PDF), Village of Warfield](https://warfield.ca/wp-content/documents/bylaws/Bylaw-866-Noise-Control-Bylaw-2019.pdf) (read 2026-11-08)
- [Contact Us, Village of Warfield](https://warfield.ca/contact-us/) (read 2026-11-08)
- [Departments, Village of Warfield](https://warfield.ca/village-office/departments/) (read 2026-11-08)

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